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The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes - Abridged

The Honest and True Memoirs of a Nonentity

The Best of the Comedy-O-Rama Hour: Book #1

by Joe Bevilacqua, Charles Dawson Butler & Robert J. Cirasa

Length 4 hours 55 minutes

Language English

Narrators Joe Bevilacqua, Vernon Morris, Henry J. Quinn, Jan Meredith, Ed Hyland, Terry Price, Gwendolyn Lewis, B. H. Barry & a full cast

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Comedy and mystery are happy bedfellows in The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. Veteran award-winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua's ten-part radio theater series pays humorous homage to the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories are filled with sly references to the original "Canon," and even the Baker Street Irregulars and other Holmesian groups and scholars have enjoyed this about the series.

Titles include: Episode One: "The Mystery of the Creepy Hack Writer"Episode Two: "My Dinner at Baker Street"Episode Three: "Sherlock Holmes in Trouble"Episode Four: "A Study in Lavender"Episode Five: "The Death of Mr. Sherlock Holmes"Episode Six: "The Giant Rat of Sumatra" Episode Seven: "Tales From the Vienna Wards"Episode Eight: "His Second to Last Bow"Episode Nine: "Revenge of the Beekeeper"Episode Ten: "Holmes' Creepy Christmas"

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Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.

Daws Butler was the master of voice. His was the voice behind most of the classic Hanna-Barbera characters: Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, and a hundred others. He also originated the vocal character of Cap’n Crunch and other famous Jay Ward cartoon characters. His significant work with Stan Freberg in the 1950s on The Stan Freberg Show and multimillion-selling records such as “St. George and the Dragonet” are still held in reverence today. He also ran a voice acting workshop for many years. Among his many successful students are Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, and Corey Burton, from Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind.